AIDS The Ultimate Challenge

AIDS"None of us is so unique as to be exempt from the human condition."As the numbers of reported AIDS cases continue to climb, and the disease continues to take more and more lives, those who have to deal with the complexities of this problem continue to ask: "How do we care for these terminally ill?"Using letters from patients, questions and answers between patient and doctor, and other compassionate tools, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the world's foremost expert on death and dying, shows us how to comfort the seriously ill and help AIDS patients through the critical "stages of dying" She addresses the stigma surrounding AIDS as a "gay disease" and makes a special plea for prisoners with AIDS, for women and children with AIDS, and for babies with AIDS. This remarkable book is warm and informative on one of the most important subjects of our time.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was born in Zurich and attended the University of Zurich Medical School. Psychiatrist and world-renowned authority on death and dying, she travels extensively, lecturing about her work. She is the author of the bestselling On Death and Dying, Questions and Answers on Death and Dying, Death: The Final Stage of Growth, and To Live Until We Say Good-Bye. She makes her home at Healing Waters Farm in Head Waters, Virginia.